Is it possible to change point of view inside virtual reality porn videos?

by The Red Ghost• 2 nov. 2017

Watching virtual reality porn videos here onPornFoxVR is awesome, but I know that there is one thing that annoys us all: the inability to move inside the videos. Maybe you're inside a wonderful scene with Anissa Kate and she has her big breast just there, next to your face: you want to move your head towards them, but you can't... the video moves with you. This really hurts. It would be amazing to be able to move our head a little and explore the scene from a different point of view, seeing closer some "details" that we really like. Is this possible? Will it be possible?

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The answer to the question is basically "not at the moment". You can't move inside a VR porn movie for the same reason why you can't move inside a photo or inside a standard video. There are times when you're looking at a Youtube video and you want to see things from a slightly different point of view and instinctively you tilt your head to see them better until you realize a little later that this action has very little sense. A video is recorded by a camera that is in a particular position and simply stores what it can see from that position. No further action is possible. VR videos are recorded with special 360 cameras, binocular cameras or special cameras, but the result is the same: a recording from a single point of view. This means that you can't move from there and you can't arrive to touch Anissa's breasts.

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The only solution to have a virtual scene that you can navigate seems to use CG (Computer Graphics) experiences, like Hentai VR games. In a VR game, everything is rendered by a PC, so you can move everywhere and do whatever you want. This is fantastic, especially for the fans of Hentai genre, but it loses a lot from a realism standpoint: the cartoon version of Anissa is not like her in real life. Since VR is made to enhance immersion, living a cartoonish reality is nice, but can't give you the impression of being really there.

That's why a lot of big heads of the VR research community have started to look for solutions. The idea behind these solutions is the following one: if it were possible to record the scene so that more information about the environment is stored, it would be possible to move inside the recorded scene. Currently, there are two typical approaches:

Depth info: the camera doesn't record only the images of the scene, but also the depth of what it perceives. This means that it is able to reconstruct a rough 3D model of the scene surrounding it so that when you play the video, you're like in a CG experience and you can move. This approach is cheap and somewhat functional: Ela Darling started making some VR cam shows using an RGBD recording performed with Kinects. The problem is that the reconstruction is very rough and subject to holes: the camera can't detect what there is behind the objects, so if you lean to see the back of something, you see a black hole or a bad distortion;

Light-field technology: the camera is very big and doesn't detect only the images of the scene, but tries to understand exactly all the properties of the light rays in the portion of volume that surrounds the head of the user. This means a complete reconstruction of how light travels in a volume around the point of view of the user, through which it is possible to playback that scene from all point of views inside that volume. This means that you can move your head in that volume and see the video from exactly that point of view. Since the camera is big, it is very very expensive; and since it has to store a lot of data about the light rays, the resulting file is of an abnormal size. But the result is astonishing: quality of video is amazing and you have really the impression of being really there. A company that is working on this technology is for instance Lytro.

Since the breasts of Anissa are of interest to the whole world, a lot of companies are experimenting to make this kind of 6DOF videos available: Facebook, Lytro, Intel, Adobe are all working of this. At the moment the technologies are too expensive or too rough, but they're improving every day. When they'll be affordable and working well, surely VR porn industry will start employing them and will give us the ability to experience VR porn videos in a new way that will astonish us all. Finally, we'll able to grab Anissa's big twins. But for now, we'll only be able to stare at them and suffer :D